TripAdvisor Reviews Royal Inn Phnom Penh

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... today who sit in the grounds of S21 who were once prisoners. Their stories are all around the prison and one of them to this day has no idea what happened to his child. The Khmer Rouge completely took charge of Cambodia at the time, they closed all hospitals and schools in every town and city and made them into prisons. The hospitals they had left were run by children and all of the medicines were made by the Khmer Rouge, ...

... the night market, having been warned it was quite a walk, none of us had any where to be, so didn’t mind. Once in the night market, we took 20 minutes to walk through the entire area. Quite an anti-climax. We then sat down and had some dinner, ordering squid that had been fished far too young and not deboned. I spent most of the meal picking cartilage from mouthfuls. We went back to our guest house, packed up our things and then climbed ...

... and makes you think about where your clothes are from and how hard the people work. It's quite upsetting. We stayed in a hostel called top banana in Phnom Penh that was bright yellow in the outside of course! It was really nice, it had a really cool rooftop bar with disco balls and uv lights where I had too many strawberry ciders...yes mum - they have cider here!!! :p Our room was air conditioned but we woke up in the middle of the night and it ...

... It was originally a high school but in 1975, was taken over by Pol Pot's security force and turned into a prison. It soon became the largest center of detention and torture in the country. Detainees who died during torture were buried in mass graves in the prison grounds. Over 17,000 people held at S-21 were taken to the extermination camp at Choeung Ek to be executed. When the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, they found only seven prisoners alive at ...